I’ve written a book about the Book of Common Prayer that will be published by Princeton University Press this fall, and I’ve created an associated tumblelog.
Please consider supporting this tumblelog by buying some of my books. I will thank you, my family will thank you, and the internet — surely — will thank you.
All it takes is actually bothering to meet a teenager or three and you’ll see what I know to be true from meeting hundreds upon hundreds every year: they’re the same curious, sensitive, smart, compassionate, funny, questioning, brilliant people they’ve always been.
Patrick Ness. Well, yes, except for the ones who are boring, selfish, lazy, cruel, or unimaginative. Teenagers are just people, with pretty much the same distribution of virtues and vices as their elders. “Today’s teens are device-addicted ciphers” and “Today’s teens are creative, activist world-changers” are equally moronic memes.